Five-year old Yua Funato was found unconscious at a Tokyo apartment in March, her feet severely frostbitten and her face and body covered with bruises that were inflicted by her 33-year-old stepfather. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital from pneumonia-induced sepsis caused ...

The number of children in Tokyo who were still waiting to enter nursery schools as of April has decreased from the year before for the first time in three years, NHK reported Tuesday, citing Tokyo Metropolitan Government data.
The figure stood at 7,814 in April, ...

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction went into effect here on April 1, 2014, but there is another Hague treaty that Japan has yet to sign.
The purpose of the Hague Adoption Convention is to prevent the trafficking of children, ...

The death of a 3-year-old girl, thrown into a river by her mother in November, underscores shortcomings in the nation's child protection system, 10 years after amendments to the child welfare law purported to fix it.
Ayumi Sato, of Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture, had sought help ...